One of the most popular executive wine tastings I conduct is a blind tasting of top Bordeaux wines...
Karen MacNeil
Speaker. Consultant. Author. Karen MacNeil is one of the top wine professionals in the United States.
Karen MacNeil is one of America’s most celebrated wine writers and speakers. She is the author of the award-winning, best-selling book The Wine Bible, widely regarded as one of the most authoritative books on wine, with more than one million copies sold. An Emmy Award winner and James Beard Award recipient, Karen is known for making wine deeply meaningful, exciting, and wonderfully accessible.
Blogs Written By Karen MacNeil
Champagne—The Taste of Success
In every new edition of my book The Wine Bible, the chapter on Champagne has gotten larger. (Not...
The Power of Wine for Successful Corporate Events
As a speaker, I have given hundreds of talks and wine tastings for corporate executives all over...
Age Can Be Mind blowing
Most of the wine we drink is aged about as long as it takes to get it home from the store. That’s...
Why Wine Matters
As a wine speaker who specializes in corporate events, I’ve watched scores of times when a tasting...
Women Wine Tasting Ability
We’ve all heard it said that women are better at tasting wine than men. But can that possibly be...
Karen MacNeil gives the Keynote Speech for Wine2Wine conference in Verona, Italy
https://youtu.be/Vnh7XYYllxk?si=lMU_HsjwfWNSrW77 Public Speaker and Wine Consultant Karen MacNeil...
How to Drink a “Vintage of the Century”
Every century, every place, has its legendary vintages. 1945 and 1961 in Bordeaux, for example,...
The Most Comprehensive Tasting in the US of Top Chinese Wines
The first time I visited mainland China—in the winter of 1979—the country, isolated for decades,...
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What Makes Great Wine Great? - A Corporate Tasting in AsiaYou can talk to an audience. But it’s a...








